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Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

This week's list features all sorts of shenanigans. A ghostly romp across the landscape? Check. Blood? Of course. A party? Duh.

Do you know of a WoW-related web comic that isn't featured on this list? Link to it in the comments section below!

• The Daily Blink Twink Different, The Soulless Gaze of Evil, and Panda Dances: By the Numbers
• DLC Form Follows Function
• Sara & Kleeyo Celebration

The inimitable Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street, lead systems designer, recently hit the forums to talk about warrior balance. Along the way, he dropped some of that classic wisdom that spawned my eternal love for Ghostcrawler. He pointed out that you don't need hard numbers to describe how a rotation feels (though you do when talking about DPS competition), but he did say he thought the community would benefit from some adjectives other than "clunky."

We completely agree. Describing the feel and sense of a rotation can be a tricky business, and clunky is the go-to adjective for most folks. There are other words we can use, though, that help provide a more refined sense of what you intend. We're here to help, so here's our list of alternatives to "clunky."

• Inelegant The rotation is serviceable but lacks poetry. It's like you can feel the rotation trying to be rhythmic, but it's constantly interrupted without meaning. A big proc counts as meaning, for the record.
• Twisted Because the flow of the rotation is interrupted to go backwards, it feels like your fingers get twisted up trying to achieve optimum. Think two steps forward, one step back ... now three steps forward, two steps back.
• Cumbersome So many button pushes are required in a short period of time (what's up, cat druids?) that it feels like you're so focused on your rotation that you can't see the game.

Alterac Valley has been a brutal contest between the Alliance and the Horde since the beginning of World of Warcraft. The Battleground has gone through radical redesigns over the years, but one thing has remained the same -- Alterac Valley has always held a powerful, destructive secret for the brave to exploit when there was otherwise no hope for victory.

Reddit user frodwith posted a tale of an epic AV battle, an Alliance team on the ropes, and a force awakened in the snowy chasm that has not seen the light of day in long, long time. When a full team of Horde multiboxers (players who use multiple characters simultaneously) garrisoned themselves into Drek'thar's keep to farm honor, the Alliance had to take drastic measures.

Some people do not even know of the existence of Ivus the Forest Lord or Lokholar the Ice Lord, two nasty NPCs that are spawnable by turning in the faction's respective items. After a summoning ritual, the faction's NPC will spawn and set upon a path of destruction all the way to the enemy leader's keep.

I think you can see where this story might go. With Drek'thar heavily guarded and an expert team of computer-assisted players between the Alliance and victory, everyone worked together to begin the summoning rituals. Read the full story on Reddit for a fun, nostalgic time of triumph and PvP adversity.

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Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Have you ever said, "I could play my character in my sleep!"? Well, one of the characters on this week's list actually can!

There's also a cheeky service ticket system, a comic convention, a pirate, and naps.

Know of a WoW-related comic that isn't featured on this list? Link to it in the comments section below!

• NPC Multi-Sleep-Tasking
• Teh Gladiators Immune to the Plague
• Sara & Kleeyo Carnivorous
• From Draenor With Love Our Poor, Tired Feet

Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

This week's list takes large leaps, explores the dangers of being overpowered yet soft-hearted, imagines what an Orgrimmar customs might be like, and more.

As always, if you know of a WoW-related comic that isn't featured on this list, drop a link into the comments section below!

• LFG #559 and #560
• The Black Dragons Chronicles
• NPC Gamer Body Optimization and Gamer Body Optimization Part 2
• With Love from Draenor The Art of War Part 2

Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Happy belated anniversary, Kuo's Fox Rain!

Black Dragons Chronicles is having Technical Difficulties, but we have been assured that they will be temporary.

As always, if you know of a WoW-related comic that isn't featured on this list, drop a link into the comments section!

• The Daily Blink If You Don't Get it, it's Probably for the Best and If We Were Zarhym for a Day and Wake Up, Sheeple
• NPC Binkfly and Cute But Deadly
• Trigonometry Comics Red in Morning, Page 30 and 31

Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Well, The Warcraft Hero has officially ended. Farewell! We shall miss you.

In other news? Chocolate! And bath time!

• Kuo Fox Rain 40
• LFG #555 and #556
• The Daily Blink Keep Calm and Buff Mages
• Last Call #251
• Trigonometry Comics Red in Morning Page 29

When I was younger, Easter was a time of good food and great gaming. While my parents and relatives discussed boring adult stuff in my aunt's living room, my brothers and I would flee with our cousin to their basement, where we'd play Mortal Kombat II on SNES all night. I was always Liu Kang, my younger brother was normally Reptile, and I'd always win the first few matches by backing him into a corner and repeatedly bicycle kicking him until he died. Or blocked. Once he became a preteen, it was usually the latter, and I haven't beaten him in a fighting game since.

The long-distance flying Martial Arts kick has been a staple in video games ever since video games became a Thing, and I'm particularly pleased to announce that Blizzard has done it due justice in Mists of Pandaria with Flying Serpent Kick. It won't allow you to abuse dated wall mechanics or give you a false sense of pride, but it's one of a number of awesome monk abilities that fit in well with the monk archetype in gaming in general while staying true to WoW's form. Hopefully, these five monk abilities will have you excited for WoW's next expansion.

1. Expel Harm Normally, heals aren't something that I typically call exciting or cool, unless they're the total awesomeness that is Healing Rain. This is especially true given the relative homogenization of healer classes in Cataclysm and the existence of the healing holy trinity. Expel Harm isn't your normal heal. Instead, what Expel Harm does is heal you (or, if glyphed, your target) for a small amount, and then it does 100% of the healing done to the closest enemy target as damage.

Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

There's a new comic for the list this week. Check out Last Call! In other news, Trigonometry Comics is experiencing a few Technical Difficulties. Fortunately, the problem doesn't sound as bad as it could have been, and there's still a comic in which you can read all about it (and that's the real important thing, right?). Good luck, Ylsbeth!

The Warcraft Hero is ending, although the final installment is not up yet. I'm gonna miss those little dudes.

Finally, we're a little behind in our reading of The Daily Blink. You might need to go back to Rampant Expansion Speculation and go from there. Don't even ask me how I managed this.

Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Sad news: Tokkar shall not be continuing with his WoW-related comics. He has decided to focus his efforts on a new comic using his own artwork. We wish you luck, Tokkar, and hope to see you around in the comments section from time to time!

• GU Comics Practicing
• Away From Reality Spoiler Alert
• What's Shakin' Page 75
• LFG #551 and #552

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Pop law abounds in The Lawbringer, your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. Mathew McCurley takes you through the world running parallel to the games we love and enjoy, full of rules, regulations, and esoteroic topics that slip through the cracks.

As I am gearing up for PAX East and getting my things in order for the trip, I did not have a chance to write the Lawbringer I wanted to for today. Instead, I was "busy" with other work for a new client that I think you guys and girls might be able to resonate with. Are you going to PAX East? You should come meet me and the WoW Insider crew and see the live podcast! Follow @wowinsider or myself (@gomatgo) on Twitter for more announcements about where and when myself and the WoW Insider crew will be hanging out at the convention.


PRESENTED IN THE COURT OF THE HIGH KING
FOR THE DISTRICT OF STORMWIND:

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Warlocks, denizens of the Twisting Nether, and other fel beings
on behalf of all other persons and demons similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

Blizzard Entertainment, dream shatterers,

Defendants.
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On behalf of all warlocks, fel beings, demons, succubi, fel hunters, demon hunters, fel beasts, fel handlers, felsteeds, infernals, female infernals, imps, fel imps, fel bears, satyrs, gnomes, and any and all other universal or otherwise beings that do not possess the ability to create green (or "fel") fire, Plaintiffs state the following complaint:

Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Gigz has gone vegetarian! Beyond the Tree is back! There's a dwarven bearded lady in a bikini!

And if that won't convince you that this week's list of WoW-related webcomics can't be missed, I don't know what will. So what are you waiting for?

• Lo'meath & Huilii Chapter 3, Page 1 and 2
• AFR All Dressed Up
• Arena-Inside First World of Warcraft Problems and What Is Your Favorite Color?